"Smart textiles (E-textiles) also known as smart textiles, or smart fabrics, are fabrics that feature electronics and interconnections woven into them."This speak will present: the main concept of wearable computing, what is smart textile, its development, challenges; fabrication methods, smart textiles sensors and devices, smart textile systems and applications in health care and my labs research on wearable and smart textile.

Bio:

Professor and director of Mobile Computing Center, University of Electronic Science and Technology, China; Visiting Research Fellow of Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology of Chinese Academy of Science; Postdoctoral study on wearable computing at University of Toronto(1998-1999); Visiting professor at GVU center of Georgia Tech (2002-2005), studying on wearable computing an AR. In Sept. 2009, visiting professor at TZI Center of Bremen University, and beginning long term collaboration on wearable computing. Co-organizers and Chairs of The first (2010) and the second (2011)" Sino-German Symposium on Wearable Computing"; Organizers and General chairs of the third (2009) and the fourth (2014) China Wearable Computing Conference , associate-organizer and Chair of program committee of the fifth and sixth China Wearable Computing Conference.